Mr. Seward to Viscount Treilhard.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 6th instant, commending to the kind attention of this government three affairs which interest Frenchmen in New Orleans, namely: first, one in relation to various lots of sugar belonging to Messrs. Richard Aldige & Company and to Messrs. Goodchaux, deposited in the warehouses of the custom-house in that city; secondly, another relating to two lots of printing paper belonging to Charles Harispe, which Major General Butler caused to be seized in the warehouses of the custom-house there; and thirdly, certain arbitrary acts which are represented to have been committed by orders of federal authorities on a plantation belonging to French citizens, and to state that these matters have all been referred to the appropriate departments of this government for inquiry and report.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my high consideration.
Viscount Treilhard, &c., &c., &c.